Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Wednesday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed “Humpty Hump Day” today! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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“This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Disappointments, Doubts, Fears, and Procrastinations….Dream Killers!”
There is an R&B song entitled “One Day I’m Gonna Be Somebody,” that Morris Day and the Time Band recorded. If you are not a R&B music fan, you might not have ever heard the song. The gist of the song can be gotten thru the lyrics “one day I’m gonna be somebody, one day I’m gonna be rich, i’m gonna say my prayers and work real hard, so that I never have to dig a ditch. The only way I’d work at a car wash, is if I owned the whole darn place, but if getting to the top means washing a car, I’d be scrubbing with a smile on my face. One day I’m gonna be somebody, gonna stand out in a crowd, one day I’m gonna be somebody, gonna make somebody proud. One day I’m gonna be a star, I’m gonna do whatever it takes, why should I starve when I could be elsewhere, making what the rich man makes. If I should die before I’m rich, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, but if I’m rich before I die, I wanna work because nothing comes cheap. Somebody bring me a mirror, so I can look at my cash, somebody bring me a mirror, so I can look at my cash. We don’t like the new wave!” Morris Day and his band “The Time” were some pretty talented entertainers in their day! Not only could they sing and dance, and play a variety of instruments, but they also had a way of adding a lot of humor into their performances that really got the crowds involved in their concerts. Morris Day and his band co-starred in the 1984 movie “Purple Rain” with the artist formerly known as “Prince,” who in real life actually discovered Morris Day. In this movie, Morris Day and Prince are lead singers of their bands, and they are in a deep rooted battle over who would win as the headlining act for the “First Avenue Club” they perform at, as well as the heart of a beautiful woman (Apollonia Kotero). Prince has to overcome quite a few disappointments, doubts, his fears of not being good enough, and also procrastination of not giving his two female band mates their composer ability credit, by consistently declining their request to use music they have created. If you’ve seen the movie, you already know that Prince not only wins the competition for the top spot as the club headliner, but he finally allows Wendy and Lisa’s music to be headlined in his performances. Oh, and as the movie would go, Prince wins Apollonia’s heart too in the process. I know some of you are looking at me kinda side-eyed right now, but I told you that these subjects for my “Thoughts For Today” come from some of the strangest origins at times LOL! It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “Disappointments, Doubts, Fears, and Procrastinations….Dream Killers!” And AMEN goes right here!
Disappointments - will cause a lot of people to totally give up on their dreams. Especially if they have multiple disappointments in a short period of time back to back. Looking back over my life, I have endured so many disappointments that I could have, and maybe even should have given up on my dreams. But then I remind myself “Who do you think you are that you think you are so special to not have to endure disappointments in your life when everyone else does? You are no more special than anyone else trying to make their dreams a reality! You (meaning me) will have to put in the total amount of work required to make them happen or spend the rest of your life wondering “what if! So stop having your little pity party, pick yourself up and dust yourself off and keep it moving forward!”
Doubts - will also play a HUGE role in killing dreams. Why you ask? Because the very thought that you can’t do something because it looks to be too difficult or hard, or that it will require you to really put your determination to the test, has killed so many dreams that there isn’t any human who could count that high without getting worn out. The problem with doubts is that they creep in at a very opportune moment in your struggle. How many times have you ever seen or heard of someone doubting themselves when they were normally successful? It’s BEFORE they attempt that feat that might change their lives good or bad when Satan injects doubt in our minds. Matter of fact, “doubt” is one of Satan’s biggest and most successful weapons to date! Ironically, we (mankind) is still falling for the “Doubt Okie Dope” that Adam and Eve fell for back in the Garden of Eden! That ought to tell you how successful that tactic is, that Satan is still using it today! And then you have those people around you who will surely doubt your ability to succeed at anything. “You ain’t gonna be able to do that, that’s impossible for anyone to do.” Well it might be impossible for YOU, but you see, the way I’m set up is that when my GOD has my back I can accomplish anything! I am a SUPER HUMAN! And AMEN goes right here too!
Fear - This one here is a sneaky one! Fear destroys so many dreams, because in most if not all cases, the person who is succumbing to their Fears most likely could have, should have, would have, accomplished their dreams had they not given in to that fear. Here’s a little secret that might not be a “secret” to you at all, Satan knows what your capabilities are just like God does! And if you don’t think like I’ve told you in the past, that “Satan has peeked into your future” and seen what you had the potential to become if you just stay focused and dedicate, you are sadly mistaken! Fear and Doubt actually work together in unison, because “Fearing” the potential dangers, level of complication, or whether you will succeed, will create all kinds of doubt. And we all know that once Satan gets us to doubting ourselves or giving in to our fears, he was us whooped! Here’s another little secret that you may or may not already know, “FEAR” is NOT of God! Fear is a Satan creation! So let me get this straight, you say you believe in God who is all powerful, can do ANYTHING He chooses to do, and most importantly, protect you from EVERYTHING including Satan, and you fear what the enemy can do to you? There’s just something not right or normal about that mentality! Every fear that could ever arise in our lives, and yes I meant EVERY one of them, can be made to cease and desist with just a simple phrase “Get Thee Behind Me Satan, Fear, Doubt, Disappointment, Procrastination, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ MY Lord and Savior!” But say it with true conviction! And you know what, they have NO CHOICE BUT TO OBEY because you commanded them to do it in Jesus’ name! They don’t have any control of Jesus Christ, He has all the control over everything!
Procrastination - UGH!!! I saved this one for last, because I have suffered many “dream losses” due to Procrastination! Here’s my dream killer of choice! Because again, as I look back over my life, I have allowed the “I’ll do it tomorrow” mentality to kill so many of my dreams, that it really embarrasses me at times. Knowing that I suffer from the Procrastination fault, and still allowing it to negatively affect me is just pretty much stupid on my part. As the old saying goes, “never put off tomorrow that which you can do today,” really plays heavy on my mind. There have been one dream after another in my distant past that was killed by me procrastinating. I could probably freak some of you out by telling you that I have known that God had a Spiritual Purpose for my life since I was back in college. While sitting in my dorm room one night and couldn’t sleep nomatter how hard I tried. I was tossing and turning for some reason, but wasn’t dreaming about anything at all. My roommate had spent the night with his girlfriend off campus, so I was there alone. I decide to get up and go to the bathroom, and when I open my eyes, there was a figure standing in the corner of my small dorm room. It resembled a human shape, and as crazy as this is going to sound, it glowed so brightly, that I could hardly look at it. It never spoke one single word to me, it just stood there with its arms stretched out towards me. I was paralyzed, I couldn’t move and not even blink it seemed. I had the most overwhelming feeling of a calming but very peaceful presence. And also as crazy as it sounds, I could feel whatever it was there in the room with me, consuming me in a sense. My skin began to tingle, at least that is the best way I can explain it. I don’t know why, but I felt so drawn to that light, image, or whatever you would like to call it. I tried my best to move towards, or speak to it, but my body muscles wouldn’t unfreeze for anything. The crazy thing was, that I had absolutely NO fear of it. I was more overwhelmed for lack of a better word. It was just like a very overwhelming presence unlike anything I ever felt in my entire life! I was more trying to convince myself that I wasn’t dreaming. I slapped, pinched and punched myself trying to see if I was dreaming, the pain from those acts proved that I wasn’t dreaming at all. There are only a few people until today that I have told this to, my mother and my grandmother and a couple of Pastors. Ironically, all of them told me the same thing, despite not knowing the other even knew about me telling them. “God was visiting you, He must want you to come closer to Him and or He has a Spiritual Purpose for your life”. After I was able to break free of my unfrozen state, I tried to speak to this entity. “Why are you here, what do you want? Are you trying to tell me something, because I don’t understand?” But received no response that I could even to this day interpret. All I can tell you, is that from that day forward, I have had an overwhelming urge to try and be a better person, live a more Godly life, and talk to other people about God and His Salvation. Yes I know, some of you might be thinking I’m either making this up or crazy, but I put that on everything I believe in and hold dear and true to me, that it happened just like I explained it above. And contrary what some people might think, NO I WAS NOT DREAMING! I felt those smacks upside the head LOL! This my brothers and sisters was the beginning of my calling to be an encouraging messenger for Christ Jesus.
Can I ask you a life changing question?
“Are you allowing Disappointments, Doubts, Fears, or Procrastinations to kill any of your dreams????? Can I get an AMEN?
“Today, Choose To “Ride or Die” With Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that exactly what He did for us on the Cross?”
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